Show r i ELIHU ROOT TALKS T ON UNIFORM LAWS Secretary of State Delivers S Address at Banquet in New York MEASURES AGAINST TRUSTS c. GO Unnecessary s. If 11 r States o ko Their Duties f r to 0 Each Ench Outer Other New cw York Dec Dee 12 The Thc The feature of the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania c J at nl tho the AstorIa Valdorf to- to was an address b by Secretary of or States States Ellhu Elihu Root noot who ma made e an nn doi eloquent elo elo- i quent appeal for Cor uniform legislation I l bY all states de designed to make illegal combinations of or IC capital an and other abuses complained d of IJ by citizens ns gen gen- 1 4 The Fhe rhe lar large e banquet hall of tho the hotel c was wall filled lille an and nearly every sen- sen on tu in New e York Yurl listened lo to nn and applauded the senti I of ur the lie hoot head of the Lato depart ment After r in i the enormous I pi Ie the United States has made matic V V i IP last and tl a t halt half th the secretary see sec V l i y sn wild 8 hI 11 V V I I submit to your judgment ent and I desire desire de de- ICV IC- IC V sire to lo pr presa upon you OU with t all Jill the V V K s I po possess cs that there hero IK is i but on one WR way V In lit which the Hie lie states stales of oC tho the Union can maintain i and under Ito conditions which are arc now nO be ho- hoV before JO- JO V fore toro us us liS and that Is l hy by y an awakening r on III the tue l pert part Brt of ot the tue states slates to a 1 o of or their th-Ir own duties to the country I f at Jar large e. e Under t tIn conditions which i f now exist no stale stain lat can cnn 11 live unto itself an and regulate tc its affairs with sole solo V reference lo to Its lis own treasury I it la own I V convenience Its own special Interest I state Is hound to frame Its le legis- legis ls I V I tron and ami Its Us administration with reference refer refer- I V i ence not on only I to Its Ils own special affairs V hut bul with co In effect upon ulon all its s f V titter sister states HC Ites If any state I is maintaining laws which V aT afford nJ opportunity and authority f for fr practices V f t I tices Ilces condemned b by tho ho public sense of tile the whole country or laws which through h 1 I tho operation of our modern system of c communications and business are injurious t OU ous to the interests of the whole country V that stale state Is violating the conditions upon V which alone alon can an its powers JOW be pre preserved If Jf any state stat maintains laws which pro- pro mote an and foster roster the Iho enormous over of oC corporations condemned by bythe V the people of or the country countr generally I If r an any state stale maintains laws designed n to 40 tomake V matte make easy etsy the Carma formation lion of or and the tho creation of if It monopolies an any state V maintains laws winch which permit conditions V of 0 bild label laber revolting to the sense of or V V V ni nu mankind If au any state slate maintains laws of divorce orce BO so far ar Inconsistent with V the thc general standard of the nation as asto V I V to lo violently derange the tho domestic relations rela rela- V which the majority of the stales slates I V to pre preserve er that state late promoting V I ilie tho tendency of the tho people o country coun coun 1 V tr try to j took ek relict relief through the national t Jo government and to r E forward thC 4 V movement for Cor national control and il extinction of oC local control J. J V States Slates 1 Fail In lii Du Duty The Intervention of or the national govern o In man many of the matters mallers which It V has recently undertaken would have ha been I wholly unnecessary if It the states them them- V selves had been alive to their duty to towards towards to- to top wards the general Jeneral body of the countr country It Itis is 18 useless for th the the- advocates ad of states stales rights r to In InI inveigh I h against the supremacy V of ot national authority In the fields oCt of oC t necessary ary control where the states stales selves s h-es h fall In the performance of their V duly The instinct to 0 fo self-government self r i among the people of the United States Is V too strong to lo permit them lon long to lo re respect respect re- re an any V ones one's rl right hl to exercise a D. power pow pow- V er which he rails falls to exercise The governmental gov JO control to which they deem just and nd necessary the they will have It ma may V be that such control could better belter be exercised ex ex- cx- cx i 4 ed In particular Instances b by the government gov go ov c and Jf Jt the states slates fall fail to furnish It In due measure sooner or later constructions con con- cont of or r the con constitution will be he found to Invest In the power rower where It will j b tp he exorcised exercised d in the national government The true rile and only way to preserve state authority is to be found In the awakened V t conscience of the states stales their broadened r V I views ws and higher standard of or to V to Lo the tho general public In effective 9 l legislation h lallon b by the states stales in conformity to tol V V R ral ral ne-ral moral sense seme of or the country I a ln In the tho vigorous exercise for the general gen goell- V. V J eral public good of or that state authority I t f V which is to lo be 10 preserved V Ju Replies s. s V Justice T 1 Hay Drown Brown of th the the- Penn Penn- V V hanla Supreme court who followed 1 Mr Ur Hoot Hool took Il Issue ue with his lua utterances V cl declaring that there was VaS a n limit lo to le legis- legis IK V latton Jallon that mat might be tc C enacted He lie deS de dc- de- de S scribed the tho functions of the courts and ant 2 declared that thc they were a a. check no not Qt V only on le legislation but ul on all unsent unsent- V Jlou JJ s persons nil The Tue Judiciary he lie de dc deV de- de dared d. d dla la was the hope and dependence o or of the people t V Winding hi his r up speech which made a of distinct hit with his hearers Justice t Brown rown turning so that he- he directly faced face Secretary of State Root said It is th the court coults of the nation that lIlal give commands command Vt lo to l individuals aye even ho so o and even to Presidents and con congresses t V Ju Bro 11 sat down iown In a a. whirlwind of Cheers and find it was Wan plain that thill his dc- dc V of or states stales rights met mel th approval I. 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